{"id":34048,"date":"2018-08-15T12:37:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T18:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=34048"},"modified":"2018-08-15T12:37:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T18:37:34","slug":"mountain-lions-collect-eight-team-academic-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=34048","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Lions collect eight team academic awards"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Mountain<\/a>
UCCS Mountain Lion Statue in El Pomar Plaza (Photo by Glenn Asakawa\/University of Colorado)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Eight UCCS athletic teams earned recognition for the collective academic achievements of their student-athletes in a series of awards announced in summer 2018.<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s basketball and men\u2019s golf earned top 10 national recognition from their respective coaches associations. Women\u2019s basketball ranked ninth in Division II with a team grade point average of 3.682 during the 2017-18 academic year in data collected by the Women\u2019s Basketball Coaches Association in its Academic Top 25 Honor Roll. Men\u2019s golf was one of nine Division II teams to earn President\u2019s Special Recognition with a team GPA of 3.5 or better from the Golf Coaches Association of America in its annual 18Birdies Team Academic Awards.<\/p>\n

Both men\u2019s and women\u2019s track and field teams earned the All-Academic Team Award from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. UCCS was one of 80 teams in Division II with both teams to earn the award, which went to teams with a cumulative 3.0 GPA.<\/p>\n

The volleyball team earned the American Volleyball Coaches Association Team Academic Award for the fourth straight year. The AVCA honors those team with a 3.30 GPA or greater from last year. Men’s basketball earned the National Association of Basketball Coaches Team Academic Excellence Award for the second straight season with a team GPA greater than 3.0.<\/p>\n

Baseball and women\u2019s lacrosse both finished their second season at UCCS in 2018 and earned their first academic team awards. The Mountain Lion baseball team was one of 36 Division II teams to earn the American Baseball Coaches Association Team Academic Excellence Award with a GPA greater than 3.0. The Intercollegiate Women\u2019s Lacrosse Coaches Association awarded the Zag Sports Academic Honor Squad to the UCCS women’s lacrosse program as one of 63 teams with a 3.0 or better GPA.<\/p>\n

The academic awards come during the most successful season in competition for the UCCS athletic department. The Mountain Lions finished third in the RMAC All-Sports Competition with conference championships in women\u2019s soccer, women\u2019s golf and women\u2019s indoor track and field. UCCS finished No. 36 in the Learfield Sports Directors Cup standings with national appearances in women\u2019s soccer, men\u2019s and women\u2019s cross country, men\u2019s and women\u2019s indoor and outdoor track and field, and men\u2019s and women\u2019s golf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eight UCCS athletic teams earned recognition for the collective academic achievements of their student-athletes in a series of awards announced in summer 2018. (More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":34049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,49],"tags":[93,60],"class_list":["post-34048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-campus-announcements","tag-athletics","tag-student-success"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UCCS_Mtn_Lion12GA.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-8Ra","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34048"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34054,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34048\/revisions\/34054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}